Major League Baseball and Fox Sports announced on Thursday morning that they’ve signed a broadcast rights extension through the 2028 season. The deal is for seven years, $5.1 billion according to Eric Fisher of Sports Business Journal. Fox will continue to show the All-Star Game, World Series and other playoff games. Fisher also reports that starting in 2022, there will be more games on...
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Good morning, Mets fans! Welcome back to another edition of the hot stove rumor roundup! On tap today we have more news to report on a certain generational player and a few noteworthy housekeeping moves around the league. Phillies In, Giants Out on Machado Jim Salisbury of NBC Sports Philadelphia writes that the Philadelphia Phillies front office is, for the most part, undeterred by Manny...
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New York Mets star pitcher Jacob deGrom won the National League Cy Young Award on Wednesday night, getting 29 of 30 first place votes. The one writer that gave Max Scherzer a first place vote over deGrom, John Maffei from the San Diego Tribune. Maffei, a 1971 graduate of San Diego State, has been writing for the San Deigo Tribune since 2012. Maffei wrote hundreds of articles in 2018, though they...
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MLB vs Japan All-Star Series Samurai Japan 4 – 1 MLB All-Stars Amed Rosario got the day off today with Kike Hernandez filling in at shortstop. Rosario finished the series hitting .471 with 1.265 OPS. The MLB All-Stars lost the final game of the series this morning finishing the trip with a (1-5) record. Today it was the starting pitching that faltered as Boston right-hander Brian Johnson...
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Good morning, folks! deLatest Mets News Jacob deGrom is the NL Cy Young. He won in a pretty decisive manner, securing 29-of-30 first place votes. deGrom had a 1.70 ERA, 10.0 bWAR, 1.98 FIP, 217 ERA+, and 269 strikeouts over 217 innings. Yeah that is pretty good. Many Mets and both Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez, congratulated Jacob deGrom for winning the Cy Young. The entire Mets staff...
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